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Article #4674Re: More BITNET stupidity
From: David Boyes
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 1988 02:51
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 1988 02:51
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In article <448@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>I get lots of those stupid !@#$ BITNET failure messages, lately it seems
>I'm guaranteed to get at least one for each comp.sources.unix article I
>put out. I have found that the only thing that works is to send a sharp
>message, full of lots of SHOUTING CAPITALS to {postmaster,listserv,rscs}@
>{every-host-mentioned-in-a-header} with all the mail messages appended.
Gee, I never thought I'd have to flame Rich Salz, failthful moderator
of far too many groups to count, but here goes:
How about sending a message to POSTMAST@UWAVM.BITNET before
complaining to the whole net, Rich? You'll notice that the messages
you're complaining about all come from RSCS@UWAVM -- why not start
with the source of the problem?
>If anyone knows of a better place to complain about this kind of stuff,
>I'd like to hear about it ASAP; isn't there a BITNET engineering task
>meeting this week? (I wish I could avoid the tendency to claim that's
>on oxymoron. :-)
See above.
> /rich $alz, moderator of comp.sources.unix
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!pyramid!hplabs!hp-pcd!uoregon!dboyes From: dboyes@uoregon.UUCP (David Boyes) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: More BITNET stupidity Message-ID: <1618@uoregon.UUCP> Date: 29 Feb 88 02:51:58 GMT References: <7136@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <448@fig.bbn.com> Reply-To: dboyes@drizzle.UUCP (David Boyes) Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR Lines: 31